How to format your references using the Journal of Data and Information Quality citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Dietrich H. Nies. 2007. Biochemistry. How cells control zinc homeostasis. Science 317, 5845 (September 2007), 1695–1696.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Suzanne Wolff and Andrew Dillin. 2013. Ageing: beneficial miscommunication. Nature 497, 7450 (May 2013), 442–443.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Camila Carlos, Tatiana T. Torres, and Laura M. M. Ottoboni. 2013. Bacterial communities and species-specific associations with the mucus of Brazilian coral species. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013), 1624.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Dennis Mathew, Bulent Ataman, Jinyun Chen, Yali Zhang, Susan Cumberledge, and Vivian Budnik. 2005. Wingless signaling at synapses is through cleavage and nuclear import of receptor DFrizzled2. Science 310, 5752 (November 2005), 1344–1347.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

MacRoberts. 2014. MacRoberts on Scottish Construction Contracts. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Umesh Hodeghatta Rao. 2014. The InfoSec Handbook: An Introduction to Information Security. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ilan Ben-Zvi, Merav Lidar, Eitan Giat, Olga Kukuy, Yaron Zafrir, Chagai Grossman, Yossi Rosman, and Avi Livneh. 2015. Clinical Picture in Adulthood and Unusual and Peculiar Clinical Features of FMF. In Familial Mediterranean Fever, Marco Gattorno (ed.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 47–80.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Data and Information Quality.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2014. Awesome Time-Lapse Of Biggest Sunspot In 24 Years. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/awesome-timelapse-biggest-sunspot-24-years/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. 2001. Aviation Competition: Challenges in Enhancing Competition in Dominated Markets. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Doratriz Equihua. 2010. The relationship of mental health and family factors to parental involvement in their children’s education among Latina mothers. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Mary Hui. 2012. In Organic-Hungry Hong Kong, Corn as High as an Elevator’s Climb. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [4, 6–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Data and Information Quality
Abbreviation	ACM J. Data Inf. Qual.
ISSN (print)	1936-1955
ISSN (online)	1936-1963
Scope	Information Systems Information Systems and Management